One Maxim Integrated Products insider Tunc Doluca, Director and Officer, today, sold 31,000 shares having a market value of approximately $1,883,405, as indicated in a form 4 document filed with the SEC. There have been 6 insiders with buy/sell transactions in the past 90 days prior to this filing. All of these trades have been sales resulting in the sale of 151,531 company shares. Adding the most recent activity to this 90-day history indicates insider trades have seen net sales of 182,531 shares and have averaged 26,076 shares per transaction over this time period.

Insiders at Maxim Integrated Products have a higher number of buy/sell trades than the 77-peer company average over the last 90-day period. The Semiconductors peer group saw 190 buy/sell trades during this period for an average of 2.5 transactions per company. The number of shares per buy/sell trade for Maxim Integrated Products insiders was also higher. Within the peer group there were 201,453 shares purchased and 2,301,517 shares sold with company insiders selling 11,053 shares on average.

The data sourced in evaluating and writing in this story eliminates all trading activity reported to the SEC that involves awards, options, exercise of derivative securities, company buy-backs, taxes, gifts, shares acquired via inheritance and tenders or exchange offers.